The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions and the Yoon Seok-yeol Movement Headquarters held a press conference in front of the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts in Jongno-gu, Seoul on the morning of the 18th to declare the resignation of the 11th Yoon Suk Yeol regime.
Earlier, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions launched the Yoon Seok-yeol Government Retirement Movement Headquarters in June, consisting of workers, farmers, women, youth, and civil society organizations, and held the “National Convention on Resignation of Government” three times.
The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions believes that the government’s anti-labor policies have gone too far, including the reorganization of working hours represented by the 69-hour workweek, the linkage of union accounting disclosures and tax credits for members, and the president’s veto of the revision of Article 2 and 3 of the union law, called the Yellow Envelope Act, are calling for the resignation of the government.
The lack of identification of the cause of the year-old “Itaewon disaster,” Japan’s discharge of nuclear pollutant water from Fukushima, and the strengthening of the military alliance between Korea, the U.S. and Japan are also taking issue.
In response, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions plans to maximize the demand for the resignation of the Yoon Suk Yeoln regime, which was confirmed and heightened through the pan-national convention, at the general election on the 11th of next month.
Yoon Taek-geun, senior vice chairman of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, said on the same day, “Workers can no longer take it,” adding, “We cannot live with a regime that denies the Constitution and ignores the people, and a regime that threatens to win over the people.”
In addition, labor organizations in Jeju Island marched from Jeju to the Yongsan President’s Office, calling for the resignation of the Yoon Suk Yeol regime and the revision of the union law.
About 40 people, including the Jeju headquarters of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), the Yoon Seok-yeol Government Retreat Movement Headquarters, the Yoon Seok-yeol Government Retreat, and the Korean Social Daejeon Transformation Jeju Action, held a press conference in front of Gwandeokjeong in Jeju on the morning of the 20th.
“After a year and a half of Yoon Suk Yeol’s regime, Korean society has retreated to the dictatorship decades ago,” these groups said. “It has suppressed freedom of speech and has not stopped controlling broadcasting, blaming public opposition to the government’s incompetence and mismanagement.”
“We are trying to neutralize the people’s right to resist through arbitrary actions against the Gypsy Act, such as banning protests in front of the president’s office and regulating noise,” he said. “The reduction of welfare budgets, which has been reduced by tax cuts on the rich, is being passed on to non-regular workers, low-wage workers, homeless people, and vulnerable people.”
At the same time, he said, “It is Yoon Suk Yeol who ordered the 69-hour workweek plan, the crackdown on the extreme evil of cargo solidarity and construction unions, the pardon reinstatement of corrupt politicians, and the re-run,” adding, “He gave indulgence to Japan’s colonial rule and took the lead in approving the discharge of nuclear contaminated water.”
“On November 11, 150,000 workers of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions will gather in Seoul. And I will shout for the resignation of the Yoon Suk Yeol, he said. “Until the day the Yoon Suk Yeol steps down, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions will fight firmly with the whole organization.” 50,000 people from all walks of life will also gather.
In addition, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions plans to announce the justification for the resignation of the government by conducting marches and propaganda from Jeju to Seoul from the 20th to the 10th of next month, starting with the declaration of the general election.
Meanwhile, the Federation of Korean Trade Unions also decided to hold a national workers’ convention of 100,000 people near Yeouido, Seoul, on the same day.
Kim Dong-myung, chairman of the Federation of Korean Trade Unions, said in a press conference on the 13th of last month, “As the government has claimed to serve as a ‘wish acceptance department’ for employers and has said that it will never complete labor reforms, the Federation of Korean Trade Unions will launch an all-out struggle to stop it.”
HS HA
US ASIA JOURNAL
